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Insomnia. "The sick and nervous are slow in getting to sleep and are helped most by the rest they get between 5 and 9 o'clock in the morning. . . . Something can often be done for insomnia by teaching the patient to keep his mind off disturbing thoughts, to avoid mental work or exciting conversations after dinner, to take a warm bath and a little food on retiring and to go to bed earlier. . . . The less the patient sleeps one night, the less he is able to sleep the next, and the only thing that will break the vicious circle...
...with comments like this: 'Counsel for defense said so and so yesterday, and this is my reply.' He then read a part of the charge and said, 'I think that that will hold him, don't you?' "I tried my best to avoid these conversations and I told the head waiter at the club to see to it that I was not put with him again at meals." From Judge Thayer came only silence. He was said to be on a vacation, perhaps at his Maine summer home. Commenting on the new disclosures...
...their opinion that the British Government and officials of the U. S. Legation at Peking are in harmony behind a policy of armed intervention in China; whereas U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg again made clear at Washington last week, that the Coolidge administration is determined to avoid intervention in China. At Shanghai, British resentment prompted an article entitled "Washington Deserts Her Allies," in the North China Daily News, chief British news organ in China. Most injudiciously, the lurid caption of this article was displayed in the streets on placards. Chinese read, shuffled...
...Falls are always imminent in a child's life, and the first creeping stage, before he has begun to stand or walk, is the time to begin teaching him to avoid them. Long before a baby can climb onto a bed or chair he should learn to get safely down. Whenever the mother happens to be handling the baby on a bed, for instance, she should not lift him down when she has finished, but should turn him over onto his little tummy, slide him gently backward until his legs hang over the edge of the bed and continue...
...whiskey peer's petite daughter stalling her huge Daimler Double Six in traffic at Picadilly Circus. . . A stout soprano anxiously cranking her Ford backward in the Corso Vittorio Emanuele. . . A bony art student swerving her lemon-colored Citroen into a swaying taxi to avoid a Paris pushcart. . . Perhaps the memory of such typical incidents as these influenced members of the International Commission on Air Navigation, who assembled in London last week, and were called upon to decide whether women should be licensed to operate commercial aircraft. A decision had to be made, and quickly, for Mme. Boland, famed French...